Word: givens
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...during the summer, with a result that a squad of 46 men was on hand, the largest number which has ever reported on the first day. The squad has steadily increased and now numbers, 80. The work for the first week was light, though the whole squad was daily given two sessions of practice. Great stress has been laid on those exercises which demand shiftiness and agility, such as dodging and crawling. The first scrimmage was held last Thursday, after a day or two of practice in breaking through for the line and signal practice for the backs. The squad...
...present it is impossible to tell how the University team will be made up, but a slight outline of the leading candidates may be given. There are thirty-one players on the first squad, nine of whom have won their "H." G. G. Browne '10 will undoubtedly hold his position at left end, while F. de H. Houston '10, R. C. Brown '10, F. S. Blanchard '10, and H. A. Rogers '11, seem to be the most likely candidates for the other end. Captain Fish '10 and R. G. McKay '11, who is eligible, will make an extremely formidable pair...
...exercise of authority given me by the two governing boards I now create...
...realized with the help of Mr. J. D. Greene '96, secretary to the Corporation. Lectures treating medicine, business, the ministry, engineering, law, and education were delivered through the winter by men representative of their respective professions, and on every occasion were well attended by Union members. The pop concerts, given each month alternately by the Pierian Sodality and the University Musical Clubs, have been more popular than in past years, the average attendance being about three hundred. Mr. Copeland's series of six readings given in the Dining Room during January and February were the most uniformly successful...
...President Eliot, Major Henry Lee Higginson '55, Hon. J. S. Wise, Mr. Cameron Forbes, Postmaster General George von L. Meyer '79, Hon. Beekman Winthrop '97, Hon. Charlemagne Tower '72, Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith and Mr. John Kendrick Bangs. The lecture on "Education as a Career," by President Eliot was given in Sanders Theatre in order that all who desired, whether or not members of the Union, might attend...